Henry Louis Gates Quotes
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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Wherever I go, people recognize me, call my name, cheer me.
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You can do more, you can always do more.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.
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Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
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My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!
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I hate being too pretty.
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I've always found the rain very calming.
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What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.
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A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.
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The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.
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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
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I eat a lot of fish to stay healthy.
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In our family health, it's about having a balanced life, about laughing and staying on a positive note.
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The pass-word now is lost To that initiation full and free; Daily we pay the cost Of our slow schooling for divine degree. We know no means to feed an undying lamp; Our lights go out in every wind or damp.
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Stimulus spending, permanent bailouts, government takeovers, and federal mandates have all failed our nation. America's employers are afraid to invest in an economy racked with uncertainty over what Washington's next set of rules, regulations, mandates, and tax hikes will look like.
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So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.
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Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
